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THE MeHKMtT PLAINDEALER, McHENRY, IL.Ii. Famous Shot Now Practicing Physician. Norfolk, Neb.--Diamond Dick, noted ffrontier character, pony express rider land one of the most deadly marksmen Jithe West has ever produced, who quietly dropped out of sight a quarter of a century ago, has Just been discovered In Norfolk In the person of Dr. Richard J. Tanner, one of the fore- - (most physicians In Madison county. iFor more than twenty years Tanner has been practicing medicine in Norfolk and no .one even suspected that the physician was Diamond Dick, who 'used to shoot pennies off the heads of persons Just to show what lie could <k with a gun. Diamond Dick's Identity was made N'known when he volunteered to take ipart In a rodeo the local American Legion post was putting on. An lntimate fWend of Tanner "tipped it off" to some of the committee that the doc- * tor was a dead shot and might be induced to give a "demonstration." Tanner put on an exhibition of shooting that fairly took away the breath of the audience and ended In his acknowledgment that he Is the famous Diamond Dick, once known all over America for his shooting. In his exhibition Tanner used the same two old pearl-handled 45-caliber revolvers and the repeating rifle he carried when he rode pony express to the Black hills through the worst Indian- infested district la trana-lfl» aourl country. Draws Salary and Quits. Diamond Dick was at the height of bis career when he dropped out of eight At that time he was traveling around the country with a circus, glv- • lng an exhibition of fancy rifle and pistol shooting. He had been doing this several years. One of his stunts was to shoot a penny off the head of a companion. One day he drew his salary and quietly vanished. A month later Richard J. Tanner matriculated at Cotner college, Nebraska. A couple of years later he enrolled at Nebraska Wesleyan. Five or six years later he had won his medical degree and was a full-fledged doctor. He practiced a year or two In a Kansas town and then came to Norfolk, where he has ever since lived. Tanner likes to recall the early days among the West's great gun-tot era and pioneers. He knew Wild Bill Hickok, California Joe, Calamity Jane, Deadwood Dick, Texas Jack, Buffalo BUI, Pawnee Bill, etc. He had fought Indians all the way from the Platte to the Belle Fourche and nothing but his wonderful ability to handle his guns and to outride his «nemles kept his scalp on top of his head time after time. Diamond Dick's resurrection was more dramatic than his disappearance. It had been whispered around Norfolk that one of its citizens who had been a crack shot in other days would do aome shooting at the rodeo. The time came and Tanner rode into the arena. He was dressed in his old buckskins. Somebody threw a glass ball up into the air. Tanner looked at it a., moment, threw up his gun and fired. The ball went to pieces. A trap sent a clay pigeon sailing through the air. Tanner didn't seem to take any aim or to pay much attention, but the alay pigeon went all to pieces following the crack of his rifle. Two targets came sailing out in different directions. Two sharp cracks of the rifle and both targets wans in pieces. Pita Ace of Spades. A target board was brought out. Tanner shot rings about It. He cut the heart'out of an ace of spades. He fired over his shoulder, using a mirror. He fired left-handed. He fired between hia legs. And every time he fired the target showed a bull's-eye. A friend took an apple, placed it on a stick about three feet long and held It out. Diamond Dick fired Just one shot and the apple went to pieces. The S Tokyo Lad Is Honored for Great Generosity :t« Washington.--Genlchiro Y a mail? da, a Tokyo boy, la told In a $ letter by John Barton Payne, S chairman of the Red Crosa, that 8 he was responsible for "one of the most remarkable Instances 8 of self-denial and generosity I a ever encountered or heard of." 5 Yamada, upon receiving his H "annual allowance" of $1.50 >J from his parents, forwarded the entire sum to the American Red 'J; Cross to help relief work after 6 the Santa Barbara earthquake, ^ saying he recalled "the great >*i sympathy and kind assistance" pt from the United States after the •j similar Tokyo occurrence. Modes for Season SEEKS VETERAN IN ASYLUMS AND JAILS Mother Hunts for Son, World War Soldier* Diamond Dick. friend offered to hold an apple in his hands, but Tanner refused to fire at It But in 1890 he used to shoot an apple off a girl's head twice each day. Finally Tanner's friends stuck a penny into a alit in an apple, stuck the apple on the end of a stick and held It up. "Crack** went the rifle. The penny was gone. The apple was Intact. Trapped in Ice Box HllMlle, N. J.--Nick Cormoose, sixteen years old, went Into the refrigerator of the Royal Confectionery company to get some ice cream, and while he was eating the door swung shut. More than two hours later he was found, unconscious and almost frosen to death. He was soon revived. Marquette, Mich--Traveling about lie country visiting penal institution's nd asylums, hoping to find some race of her son, Joe Anderson, World war veteran, who disappeared from Detroit, March 6, 1924, Mrs. Margaret Anderson, sixty-seven, has arrived here. Her son enlisted when he was not yet sixteen and was assigned to Company K of the One Hundred and Thirty- ninth Infantry. He was gassed overseas. Later he was charged with desertion, convicted and sent to Leavenworth prison. Mrs. Anderson walked from her home at Sioux Falls to Washington, where she nought clemency for her son from President Harding. 8he contended Joe was not responsible for his act because of having been gassed. President Harding paroled him. After his parole Joe went to work at his trade as machinist. At the end of nine months he suddenly disappeared and the mother has never heard anything of him since. Mrs. Anderson visited the Ford plants ..here at L'Anse and the asylum at Newberry. She said her son might be going under the name of John E. ohnnon and has always given his adpess as Stevens Point, Wis. He Is over six feet tall, thin and of blond complexion and has a scar on his chest on the left side where he was wounded in the war. 8he said she Is making'her way to Chicago, visiting asylums and Industrial centers In hope of finding some trace of her missing son. These are the vital features of the autumn openings of the Paris couture-- an essentially broader silhouette, a waistline which is definite and distinct and which shows a rising tendency, the back flare,, a skirt length which, while little changed mathematically, has added lengthening effects, a generous amount of elaboration In trimming and details, and a direct departure from bizarre boyishness. - Now the word of Paris, as Issued at these seasonal openings, says a fash- Ion writer In the New York Herald- Tribune, is no longer uttered in the stentorian * tones of pre-war days, when the smartest French designers spoke but to be obeyed. It has become in comparison a still, small voice to be followed or not, according to the Inclinations of fashion's new aristocracy, the mesdames of the modeotherwise known as the penultimate consumers. No longer does an uncritical public^ accept willy nllly the convention-made dicta of the Rue de la Paix and surrounding avenues, and probably half the themes launched at each semi-annual showing are ruthlessly discarded by the spirited members of the modern haute monde. Wherefore it behooves the followers of fashion to carefully analyze the DADDY'S EVENING FAIRYTALE ^Mary Graham Banner WRIGLEYS * 4 i Say They Get Gold by Alchemy of Old French Scientists Give Recipe They Use. New York.--A few months ago the world was startled by the announcement that Professor Nagaoka In Japan and Professor Mlethe In Germany had succeeded In making gold out of mercury. The process was not yet of commercial value, but still the transmutation of the elements so ardently sought by the ancient alchemists had been effected. Now comes the assertion that some alchemists of the old school In France have succeeded in doing the same thing, but this time it Is real alchemy. The French have scorned all modern methods, and do not employ electric discharges or high tension currents. Here's Your Chance to Get a Buffalo a Undo 8am has about a hundred bull buffaloes to spare, and anyone who wants one for a pet should write to the Department of the Interior. Anio B. Cammeror (right) will examine the application and if it Is approved a buffalo with a head like the one above will be sent for the costet A&d crating--about $8& V They still follow the recipe of the medieval sorcerers. But, In contrast to their ancient brothers, they are not at all secretive about their work, and have published their procedure In full, so that every one can now go ahead and produce gold In his spare time. The Idea Is very simple. Take 125 parts of pure silver, seven parts of bisulphite of arsenic and three parts of sulphide of antimony. Melt this and keep It at a temperature of 1,000 degrees centigrade for some four hours and you will obtaftKa yellowish metal. This must be melted again, and again ten parts of the arsenic compound should be added very gradually. And again you must keep the temperature at 1,000 degrees centigrade for four hours. Finally you add tea parts of potassium nitrate, ten parts of ammonium chloride, ten parts of borax and some powdered soap, which is supposed to purify the metal, which will now again take on a white color. Your labors are now finished, and you will be reward' ed by finding one-quarter of 1 per cent of gold in the residue,. To prove that It is not a fake, M. Jolllvet Castelot, the president of the French Society of Alchemists, has had several chemists of renown repeat the experiment, and declares that all of them have confirmed the results. The history of the transmutation of one precious metal Into another goes back to the Middle Ages, but Francis Bacon Is really the man who first put alchemy on a scientific basis In his famous book, "The New Atlantis." Sir Robert Boyle founded his "Invisible College" on that structure, and after several experiences and transmutations this Institution became the Royal society (under the reign of Charles II), the first scientific society In Europe. Germans Fall. In the meantime, news comes from Germany that three other physicists, Erich Tlede, Arthur Schleede ana Frieda Goldschmldt, have repeated the experiments of Mlethe without the slightest success. Using chemically pure mercury and subjecting It to the same Infusion treatment as did Mlethe, they have not been able to find even the smallest traces of gold In It Also we are Informed that Doctor Aston, the worlds-famous physical chemist of the Cavendish laboratory In Cambridge, England, has decided that if gold is made from mercury it must be heavier than ordinary gold. Unfortunately for the electrical Sichemists, their analysis showed that their gold made from mercury was >reclsely the same as ordinary gold, which la another severe Mtftr for them. Sleeveleee Tunie of Slack Velvet Bordered In Bands of Fur. new themes in order to separate the chaff from the wheat, and in order to ascertain which themes are to be the distinguishing marks of the chic monde during the season. The Invariable Flara. The wider silhouette per se offers no problem save in the minds of those who are constitutionally unable to shake off the thrill of the slim straight line. Resistance, of course, Is the human element which combats every fashion change, and the long duration of the narrow silhouette made the departure from it more than usually difficult. Last autumn witnessed a few tremulous Instances of the flare, always with the straight line offered as an alternate; last spring saw most of the couture converted to the wider outline, and the present season haa uncompromisingly declared Itself in favor of the full silhouette. The defined waistline is another theme to which the mode and its followers were predisposed. Long years of tubular iteration bad made the walstless outline appear a little Jaded even in the eyes of its moat ardent adherents, and changes have been hinted at occasionally during previous openings. It cannot be said that the defined waistline is anything near as universal or distinct a tendency as the broad silhouette, but the Idea has been Incorporated Into the leading collections and It Is certain to gain momentum as the season progresses. Just now It occupies the same position as the flare a year ago--!t Is not prescribed and It can be omitted, but the forward-looking ladles of the mode will avidly accept It. Predisposition was the raison d'etre for the back flare. Spring and summer having witnessed front flares and side flares ad Infinitum, It was only natural that the designers would seek new havens for their elaborations, and nothing but theback remained. The flat back had been one of the prime essentials of the old outline and It was almost heresy to dare disturb It, but the couture, acceding to the restlessness of the moment, made the attempt. It has not been a parA tlcularly happy one and most of the effects achieved have been awkward and inartistic. Unless the Paris salons nro able to Incorporate the back flare in a more attractive manner It Is doomed to pass quickly Into the dls- •d. In any case it is not an essen- ) 1 of the mode and its acceptance is 'rely an Individual matter--It Is neither a prescribed nor a proscribed element of the new chic. Moderate skirt length, elaborate decoration and the passing of the mode garcon are three effects with but a single cause. Bizarre extremes are at best the vogue of a single season, and the ever-Increasing tide of fashion toward normalcy has accounted for all of these three effects. The abbreviated skirt had reached the kneeline in Paris, and whatever physical freedom It afforded Its wearer was more than offset by the accompanying mental discomforts suffered by the cultured woman? Moderation Is the keynote to taste, and the acutely abbreviated skirt was Its direct antithesis. The present skirt length, while not materially different than last season's, has added points and scallops to convey greater length, and most designers have created the majority of their models to give this lower effect. Just as the tendency of the waistline Is to go a little higher, the skirt hem Is headed a little lower, and the smart autumnal maiden, while retaining In general the short skirt, will never let It reach the distressful extremes of last season. Elaboration and a more feminine atmosphere to the new models obviously go hand In hand The very boyish bob and an Inartistic mannlshness affected by some Paris extremists during the summer led many to believe that severe mannlshness was to be the guiding spirit of autumn fashions. As has been frequently pointed out, the tendency of the mode in smart circles was and is distinctly toward maturer, saner and more flemlnine styles, and the severe coif was last summer's only real evidence of mannlshness, save among some blzarrists who carried little authority. At any rate the autumn offerings are more frilly than in many seasons and there Is every indi- I cation that increased elaboration will | meet with favor strong the minions of the mode. I AFTER EVERY MEAL MISERABLE MEASLES It Took Them Long Time Pack. Patou Uses Fuller Lines in Coats and Dresses The Patou collection always marks a milestone on the road of fashion. Whenever anything new is to be shown one can be sure of finding the latest interpretation of tl^e novelty In the stately salons of the Rue St, Florentln. This season Patou contents himself with stabilizing the newhigher waistline that he introduced in the spring, and even there he temporlzingly admits the possibility of other things, for some of his new models have the waistline near the hips, while others raise It so that length of skirt is the main feature on which emphasis is laid. Both coats and dresses are fiiller than before, while Jackets are either very long or very short. These, like the wraps, are copiously trimmed with fur which, according to •atou. Is the only trimming able to create an effect of richness and comfort in winter time. Many plain fabrics are used, Including the old favorite crepe satin, but the dominating note this winter silk velvet. There Is also 'a new Student Loans Safe - Washington--Loans granted to rtu- «ents on a character basis and for purposes of study are reported by the Harmon foundation to be good pay. Ifore than 40 per cent of the $26,385 loaned to students during the year IB22-23 has been paid, though accordlug to agreement only 29 per cent was itfue on February 1, 1925. The foundation reports that not a single account is likely to default. Moderation is the best of rales. Death Rate lor 1925 Below Five-Year Average Washington.--Despite an unusual number of deaths In June attributed : » "heat waves," preliminary figures made public by Surgeon General Camming, indicated the official death rate for the first seven months of 1925 would be lower than the average for the last five years. Health conditions were said by Doctor Cummlng to have been "generally good," with reports indicating that "most of the more common communvcable diseases have been less destructive than usual." A decided decrease was shown in diphtheria for the eight weeks since the first of July. During the surveyed period of 1925 approximately 6,400 .cases were reported against 8,100 for the same time in 1924. Truth never was Indebted ft» * silk velvet with a straight pile, something like a plush. This velvet falls In a special manner and Jean Patou has retained the exclusivity of the fabric for some months to come, so that models made of It may be considered as characteristic of that house. Colors are rich and varied. There is, of course, the black, brown and beige that always forms the basis of the winter wardrobe, but much red is used, especially a grenadine shade and a deep corinthian red that has been christened 1'atou's Corinthian. There are also two new greens, one a yellowish shade, the other a deep moss green, while the gamut of blues has not been neglected. Reversible Evening Wrap From Paris comes a new variation of the reversible evening wrap. In this instance It Is a model of great subtlety of line, which proclaims its duel purpose by having one side of black velvet, &hlle the other is of velvet In that fluttering youthful tone aptly described as sun-kissed apricot. "Dear me, dear me, and isn't that Just too bad," said Peter Gnome. _ • "What is the trouble?" asked the other gnomes. Tve Just heard bad news." said Peter Gnome. "Can «we be of any help? What Is the trouble?" the others asked. "I'm going to see what I can do about It right away," said Peter Gnome* "You see, I have Just heard that my dear little friend, Caroline, has measles. Yes, tliose Mean Measles have gone to visit her." "No wonder you feel angry and sad," said the other gnomes. "Tell us about Caroline,'* they urged. "Caroline is a very4 dear friend of mine," Peter Gnome commenced. "She Is a perfect dear, that's what she Is, Gnomes, a perfect dear! "She doesn't know theft I am a friend of hers, because when I see my children friends I always wear my Invisible robe. •That means that no one can see me. I'm shy. I don't like to be seen, any more than the Queen of the Fairies likes to be seen. "But I have so many children friends, children whom I love and In whom I am interested, and even though they never see Peter Gnome's face, he is their little friend. Caroline has big, dark eyes, and dark, curly hair and soft skin. She Is not very tall, and she Is not very short. ' "She Is Just a perfect size. She goes to school and Is an excellent student. She Jumps classes, which means, Gnomes, that she has gone ahead of others and has been put up higher In the school world. "She's bright, that's what she is. "In the summer she goes off to the mountains or to the seashore and she comes home with her darling little face all tanned. "Her eyes are brighter than ever, and she looks so well. "In the winter she lives In the city, in a very big city. "Well, I have Just heard that those Mean Measles have gone to visit her. They are so miserable and mean. You know how It is--they go about without being Invited, Just as do the Tonsil Twins and the Whooping Cough Wretches. •To be sure, none of them would eve* be invited anywhere. They aren't visitors any one wants. They pack their suitcases with colds and coughs and sore throats and fevers and aches Instead of with swimming suits and tennis rackets and tooth brushes and nighties and such things that ordinary people would take with them "But they go without Invitations, and they love to go to see children. "They are so mean that they llks to go to especially nice people--and you know, Gnomes, children are especially nice people. They went to visit my little friend Lucy, as you remember. They have left her--some time ago. Bui now they have gone to see Caroline. Caroline Is a neighbor of Lucy's, and they're both the best of friendsjp "But, as you notice, while I've been talking, I've been getting my things ready, and I must be off now to see if I can't make those Miserable Mean ' M e a s l e s leuve thf charming Caroline." Peter Gnome was off, and when C a r o l i n e w a s asleep he had < u long talk with the Mean Me a s 1 e s. And by promising them a ride In an airship he persuaded them to leave Caroline. But it took them time to pack ip--they still lingered about--but Fur as Trimming in Place of Embroidery rur is taking the place of embroidery as a trimming. In heartshaped medallions* of mink it trims the godets of a full length velvet coat that has the new flare at the back. _ The Influence of Vicomtesse Henri de Janze is patent in the sportsmanlike collection of sweaters and skirts, tennis frocks and very chic golf suits, besides an attractive suit with a black leather coat that is destined tor St. Morltz. Patou's sweaters are all striped or fanciful in some form or another this season. He disdainfully declares that plain jersey cloth has become overpopular and so too common for his exclusive clientele. The high-speed spirit of the age has affected one dressmaker very deeply, and Lnclen Lelong Is no Imbued with the sense of movement that fills our present-day lives that before 8l>owlng%ls collection he throws upon the screen the moving silhouette of the woman of the moment. He shows her in sports costume, In an afternoon Caroline Felt Better. >*5ES affords benefit as weS as pleasure. Healthful exercise for die teeth and a spur to digestion. A long lasting refreshment, soothing So nmei and stomach. The Great American Sweetmeat, untouched by hands, full of jAWjJUthe next morning after Peter Gnome's visit Caroline felt better. , For the Miserable, Mean Measles were getting ready to go. gown, in a pimple dinner frock and In a grande robe du solr, but always moving. Her restless modern spirit is well portrayed in a series of delightful gowns that are the embodiment of grace and motion. 4 Take New Trend Paris now Is forecasting a1 new trend of styles. Recent arrivals from abroad are saying' that great numbers of dresses and even coats are seen In which the fullness of the upper portion is gathered Into a yoke. Not on]y the front parts but the backs are showing plaits and gathers and designers de- Clare this indicates a return to the bloused dress In the near future. The Fall Tailleur Jfeen the talileured suits for fall have fallen victim to the bell Influence. The three-quarter coats are flared decidedly at the hem or are given sharp fullness by means of plaits or godets. Plaited flares In the back are a featurs of some of th£ coats. Riddle Five hundred begins It, Five hundred ends It, Five In the middle you'bring; Add the first of all letters. The first of all figures. And give me the name of a king. Answer. David. 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